Chapter CXLIII. *for the Relief of Congressional Township Number Two north, of Range Number Nine west, of the fourth principal Meridian, in Adams County, State of Illinois.* June 16, 1860
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Chap. CXLIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Congressional Township Number Two north, of Range Number Nine west, of the fourth principal Meridian, in Adams County, State of Illinois.* June 16, 1860. Preamble.Whereas section number sixteen in township number two north, of range nine west, of the fourth principal meridian, in Adams County, Illinois, is located in a lake, or pond, and is in consequence thereof wholly unfit tor cultivation, and is worthless to the inhabitants of said township for school purposes:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the school trustees for the School trustees may select certain land.said township be, and they are hereby, authorized to select one section of land in legal subdivisions of any of the public lands of the United States subject to entry or sale at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That when the same shall have been selected by the trustees aforesaid, and a description thereof returned to Patent to issue therefor.
Land to be held for use of schools.and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent or patents shall issue therefor to the inhabitants of the said congressional township, and shall be held and disposed of by them for the use of schools within the said congressional township in the same manner as other school lands are held and disposed of. Former grant to revert to the United States. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the said section sixteen in the township aforesaid shall revert to and invest in the United States, and be disposed of in the same manner as other public lands.
Approved, June 16, 1860.